I thought you were a leftist? Why are you citing a failed and disgraced Trump appointee?
That guy failed when it came to developing testing early, didnāt advocate for masking when trump told him no, and has a history that came with some very serious allegations regarding his misconduct around his data for an HIV vaccine.
Maybe you should let your butthurt towards me and others go, so you donāt end up citing shitty republicans again. Just a thought.
https://twitter.com/natesilver538/status/1633913715371245568?s=46&t=RKQIqRrKzVps835SSEmebA
https://twitter.com/natesilver538/status/1636394883366764544?s=46&t=RKQIqRrKzVps835SSEmebA
Honestly not even that bad. For a few days Iāve had a stuffed up nose in the morning and a few coughs. Once I clear my nose Iām totally normal and it would be difficult for me to say āIām sickā. Got bivalent at the end of December FWIW.
Iām calling for a national moratorium on Nate using the word āsupermajority.ā
I like that he has resorted to saying feels are most important.
Iām sure all the lab leak guys including Nate will be apologizing soon
I donāt think Nateās been a big lab leak guy, just saying it makes some sense. Yesterday I read a long comment on Reddit that debunked a lot of lab leak points, which pushed me back toward zoonotic. I donāt have any expertise, but there seems to be some actual evidence associated with the racoon dog hypothesis.
Raccoon dog
The scientific literature has been pretty consistent with natural origin at the market.
The sick thing is, a true scientific discussion will keep the door open to all possibilities (unless proven impossible). Meanwhile the speculation side will just dismiss out of hand the probability of spillover event in the market.
What I thought of when I heard āraccoon dogā
This is not how Conspiracy Brain people work. When you present them with āgenetic evidence suggesting COVID may have started with raccoon dogs at Wuhan marketā their brains donāt process this as contradictory information, their brains go Ha, I knew it! Pretty suspicious that āfoundā exactly the so-called āevidenceā that they need to debunk my wild theories. Makes you think!
Such a weird thing to say. Why would convincing new evidence for a claim make people apologize for being skeptical of the claim before they knew about the evidence? The whole point of evidence is to make you believe things you didnāt believe before!
Also, is there a non-paywalled place to read about this new stuff?
The funniest possible timeline is that the original WHO report turns out to be a coverup after all, but what the Chinese government is actually covering up is the evidence that the infection came from Huanan, correctly perceiving that this is the story that makes China look terrible. But rather than settling on the wildly implausible direct transmission/cold-chain theories that they wanted people to believe, skeptics just assumed they were covering up a lab accident. So now China is forced to backpedal and release the Huanan evidence.
Because there was plenty of evidence before?
Iāve had a runny nose for a couple days now and feel a touch feverish. Gonna go to a pharmacy later and grab some things.
Hope I donāt have covid again